WTOJ intercepts a radio broadcast at 23 MHz: "Help us! The sky has broken open over Ar-Ramadi and the sun is blotted out. It rains blood and fire. Demons walk the streets and speak the name of Vaniel, their master. Most of the population has been enslaved and made to tear down their homes to build a grand citadel to the Dark One. They’re coming for me—"[3]

NippontainovaDenshi, while investigating an Osaka water-treatment facility after a possibly related incident, detects a small insectoid robot preparing to deliver a fatal neurotoxin into the city's water supply. He managed to disable it, but not before it self-destructed, destroying most of the evidence. Startlingly, some elements of the robot's construction as well as the neurotoxin were on Project Utopia's banned technologies list, and had been created by Japanese companies prior to their banning.[5]